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Show COSTLY CLOTHES FOR WOMEN. Enormous Sums of Money Can D Spent for Finery. "A much ss S0 a yard I often paid for gold and silver tissue cloth of gold, as It Is called, though It Is not really," said a dressmaker, "cloth of gold at all. Tor cloth of gold, the real thing. Is made of pure gold, drawn Into fine wire, and then woven by hand. Such cloth was often used during the middle ages. It Is now used only In Sumatra Ita cost Is quite K00 a yard "That seems high, doesn't It? It Is nothing, though, bcsldo the cost of laco. A court train nt moire antique decorated with gold thrind and pearls, was made In Paris for an American lady last year at a cost of I7.S0O "To the empress of Ilussla not long ago the nohle of the province of Kherson presented an vrmlno tnantlo worth 1(0,000. "There are laco handkerchiefs worth 5,000 Kvcn tho t lire act of which laco la mado comes ridiculously high Tho flno hand mado thread used In tho best Ilrusscls laco Is spun from flax grown at llcbecq llognon, and fotches, In good seasons, as much aa I2.CO0 a pound." Philadelphia llulletln. |